Sentence examples for rotten start from inspiring English sources

Children born to poor parents in this rich country all too often get a rotten start.

It's been a rotten start to the year for Britain's female MPs.

That is some consolation, but I know that most of the team flown in to relieve the exhausted New York bureau have got off to a rotten start.

In her last outing, on Aug. 11, Jones won the long jump in Zurich after struggling in the 100, getting off to a rotten start and chasing down Inger Miller to win by a hundredth of a second.

As we mentioned, it was a rotten start to the season for West Brom, who were brushed aside by Man City.

With the novel designs still months away from the showrooms, Buick got off to a rotten start this year; unit sales were down 17% through February, according to industry watcher Autodata.

There were such things, in Bradley's mind, as lousy starts, rotten luck, and bad cards.

(Of course, Rotten already started the process of selling out by taking part in a reality show, "I'm a Celebrity — Get Me Out of Here," in 2004; on the other hand, he left the show after using an obscenity on a live broadcast).

He fought behind enemy lines for the O.S.S. in Nazi-occupied Europe, then set up anti-Communist stay-behind cells in Italy (unfortunately some went rotten and started blowing up civilians), before running the C.I.A.'s shadow war in Vietnam and ending up as the director of central intelligence.

"I come from an ordinary middle-class family" is a rotten way to start a campaign because you can hear the whole electorate scream back, "Oh for God's sake, put yourself away".

Alexis Tsipras, Syriza's firebrand leader, has promised to take an axe to the nexus of interests that have kept Greece's rotten establishment alive – starting with the media-owning oligarchs who control so much of the country's internal debate.